Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

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1st ed, VG, sm 12mo, 20 vols bound as 10, complete, 1845-47. Uniformly bound in half calf with marbled boards, c1900, some blind tooling, corners rubbed. Spines, blind and gilt tooling, raised bands, titles in gilt to green calf labels, edges rubbed. Internally, brown endpapers, text block edges sprinkled red, no inscriptions, each with an engraved title page and numerous illustrations within text, printed by W and R Chambers, some light offsettting and spotting. Some volumes printed 1845, others 1846 & 7. Interesting. Vol 1: V1, 1845, 13 tracts poems. V2, 1845, 14 tracts. Vol 2: V3, 1845, 13 tracts poems (Animals). V4, 1845, 17 tracts ballads. Vol 3: V5, 1845, 12 tracts poems (flowers). V6, 1845, 9 tracts poems (Coleridge). Vol 4: V7, 1845, 9 tracts. V8, 8 tracts ballads. Vol 5: V9, 1846, 8 tracts poems (Crabbe). V10, 1846, 14 tracts poems (Scott). Vol 6: V11, 1946, 9 tracts poems (Cowper). V12, 1846, 17 tracts ballads. Vol 7: V13, 1846, 12 tracts poems (USA). V14, 1846, 7 tracts poems (Shakspeare). Vol 8: V15, 1847, 9 tracts poems (Fre&Germ). V16, 1847, 7 tracts poems (insects). Vol 9: V17, 1847, 10 tracts poems (Elizabethan). V18, 1847, 21 tracts poems (birds). Vol 10: V19, 1847, 12 tracts poems. V20, 1847, 20 tracts songs.